There’s an issue of Retro Gamer from about a decade ago that had this in their list of Best ™ Video ™ Games ™ To ™ Import ™ From ™ Japan ™ along with nine of the usual suspects, glad to hear they were just lying.
it’s actually a good game to import because there’s more than 5 copies so you can get a JP copy for 20-30 bucks complete and the JP LE isn’t much more
as opposed to the US release where the disc art and memory card stickers can drive the cost
I am idly looking at ebay, a normal and sane benchmark for stupidity and I can see JP LEs going for under 35 and a loose US copy with Umi disc art going for 400
Hold on, I actually really like the game. It does meet the price of free as a curiosity. The sprite chibis are great and each of the Magic Knights writes in their diary throughout the story. The action is mostly just fine, but that’s not why you’re there. You’re there to play a highish budget adaptation of an anime.
The Working Designs choices are bad as usual but I think there are patches that fix them now.
okay person who said this, I can’t speak for the Japanese version but the US version plays the new WD opening every boot
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The conversation around working designs and the year it came out in the US and the rarity is so tiresome, like so many things in the online retro gaming community. It’s a cheaply made, cheaply priced (4800 yen msrp), bullshit Zelda game for children, by sega, one of the good teams at sega, from 1995, when 2d was still a big deal in Japan, and prerendered sprites, fmv anime cutscenes and in game voice acting were all cool. What’s not to like
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the game part
I don’t like the game part
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Fair
Kicking down the door, see y’all are discussing a children’s anime game for the Sega Saturn.
It is a Bad Zelda (genre). I think the Working Design Localization ruins it. It is supposed to be a story for 8 year old girls! WD has the girls call a succubus a slut (the original calls her an older woman.)
It is cute and bright and not exactly fun to play but not miserable. I co-sign what Bov said.
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maybe I’m being stupid, but is there a way to get Steam’s screenshot feature to output clean pngs instead of lossy jpegs? (tempted/trying to make a screenshot map)
related, but when i enable the “save external copy of screenshots” feature, nothing ends up in the folder i picked
The save external copy thing does it for me. Those are PNGs and they end up in my specified folder.
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if I wanna play one Capcom DnD game for a casual hack n slash sesh with some buds: Tower of Doom or Shadow over Mystara?
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Shadow, 100%
Its just an overall improvement over the first game
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I stick to ToD because its flashing screen FX are mostly avoidable, whereas SoM’s are not–SoM does a white screen flash on every kill, for instance. Oh wait, on a lot of just hits, I guess.
Back before I got photosensitive I also just disliked SoM’s pop-up rotating inventory menus for some reason, but I don’t remember if they were actually harder to use or if I just didn’t like the aesthetic or something.
Hm dang it would be nice if Capcom get around to doing a new PC port of Mystara in this re-porting run they’re on these days–the 2013 port by Iron Galaxy on Steam doesn’t really get along well with current graphics hardware or DX or whatever–'cause now they’ve got this “Light Reduction” option that removes screen flash so I’d finally be able to try Mystara again. ^ _^
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Does anyone know what game is referred to, where the name “Godot” is connected to Argentina in some way? I already know Ace Attorney ain’t it.
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Godot’s original Japanese real name Kaminogi Souryuu includes kanji for gods and dragons. To speculate a bit further, I think the Ace Attorney translator’s thought process was “what is a godlike name?” → “God of football”
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Has there ever been a multiplayer arcade game where the arcade cabinet connects online to all of that game’s arcade cabinets in the world to match you up against other people playing in another arcade?
Imagining some kind of massively multiplayer battle royale arcade game where everyone currently playing the game is put into one big match.
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Is that not how online play works for all these digital distribution arcade systems like Nesica?
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